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Vikings to Vie for ‘Key to the City’ Saturday

9/26/2023 2:28:00 PM

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The Augustana football team takes its shortest road trip of the season Saturday with a trip to Bob Young Field for a 1 p.m. kickoff against Sioux Falls.

Complete action can be followed on GoAugie.com/Live and the GoAugie app, presented by The Original Pancake House. The app can be downloaded in the app store or Google Play.

About the Game
Augustana, holding the nation's sixth-longest winning streak, is 4-0 on the year while Sioux Falls is 2-2.
The key trophy in the "Key to the City" game is a four-foot-tall key that was carved from an Aspen tree from the family farm of Arne Bortnem, a 1965 Augustana graduate. The traveling trophy is one of five active trophies played for in NSIC rivalries. The 'key' debuted in 2012, the first meeting between the two schools in 26 years.

About the Cougars
Sioux Falls enters Saturday's game with a 2-2 record having worked a loss, win, loss, win in that order. The final win came last week in a 7-0 victory over Minot State. The lone score came late in the third quarter as Adam Mullen tossed a 14-yard pass to Jaelon Taylor.
For the season, the Cougars have trotted out a pair of quarterbacks in Camden Dean and Mullen. Dean has three touchdown passes and an average of 157.25 yards per game while Mullen has a pair of touchdown passes while tossing 55.3 yards per outing. The ground game is paced by Dylan Rudningen and his 83.75 yards per outing while the top receiver is Carter Slykhuis and his 59 yards per game average with 22 total receptions over the four games.
Eli Schlangen leads USF in tackles with 21 total while 17 have been solo. The Cougars have accumulated two sacks on the year one each from Brady Crawford and Amauri Grosskopf.

About the Vikings
Augustana is one of 28 teams in NCAA Division II with an unblemished record at 4-0 while sitting at 2-0 in road contests. Augustana is coming off a 31-27 victory over MSU Moorhead that saw the Vikings use big plays for the win. Those plays included a 53-yard touchdown run on the game's opening play by Jarod Epperson and an 86-yard kickoff return by Isaiah Huber.
Casey Bauman has thrown for 965 yards on the year with seven touchdowns. He averages 241.3 yards per game with 66.75 yards per game going to Jack Fisher. Canyon Bauer and Fisher each lead AU with three touchdown receptions on the season.
Defensively, Peyton Buckley leads AU with 26 tackles, 18 of which are solo while owning an interception and five pass breakups. Brayden Hoops has tallied 22 tackles and Haden Wallace has racked up 20 tackles for the AU defense that allows just 79.8 rushing yards per game.

One Last Thing
Augustana head coach Jerry Olszewski is on the verge of 100 career wins. Entering Saturday, he has totaled 99 victories with 67 at Augustana. Prior to AU, he accumulated 32 wins as the head coach at St. Olaf.
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